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Beethoven Cello Sonatas Nos 3 & 5
The projected integral recording of Beethoven's music for cello and piano, by Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax, has still not...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1985
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Garrick Ohlsson)
Donald Runnicles | Garrick Ohlsson | Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
In his booklet note to the five Beethoven piano concertos, recorded over the course of a week during July 2022...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023
BEETHOVEN; BERWALD Septets
The early 19th century couldn’t get enough of Beethoven’s Septet, to the composer’s mounting irritation (‘too much sentimentality and too...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2023
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)
I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos
Andras Keller | Concerto Budapest | Dénes Várjon
These home-grown Hungarian recordings of the five Beethoven piano concertos come from one of the heartlands of Hungary’s never less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016
BEETHOVEN Fidelio
The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 3 & 7. Piano Concerto No 4
Hans Knappertsbusch | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Backhaus
Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 (Harnoncourt)
The Vienna Philharmonic gave this concert a little over a year after Simon Rattle had recorded the nine symphonies for...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Litton)
A number of excellent releases document the Colorado Symphony’s increasing distinction over the past decade or so, and they play...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14 & 23
The still-young winner of the 2006 Leeds Competition presented his Beethoven credentials more than impressively with the Hammerklavier and Waldstein...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
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